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Using Network Attached External Drive for Patch Files
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Sep 27, 2007 2:06 AM
I was wondering if there's a way to get patches to be downloaded to a network drive. Given the "issues" with different versions of office requiring different paths to the original installation sources, we've been experimenting with a network drive. I'd like to be able to use this same drive for the location of windows patches for each office. Is this possible?
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Legacy Posted By Username: carlosmp
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Aug 3, 2007 11:30 PM
Hi Carlos,
I've been wondering this too. We want to use the NAS drives at our customer locations to store the patches, but in the file source it asks you for a local drive path on the server (I don't know why they require that, seems kind of redundant to me since you give it a UNC path...but whatever). It would be nice to be able to use a NAS drive to install patches from, that way it doesn't hog server space or bandwidth.
Feature request for 4.9??
Ryan
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Legacy Posted By Username: ryan.parlee
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Aug 5, 2007 8:47 PM
You can do exactly what you are describing by just mapping a drive to the unc path of the NAS device.
Chris
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Aug 7, 2007 8:23 AM
Wouldn't a user need to be logged in so that the drive is mapped? Drives are only mapped when a user has logged in (to my knowledge).
Ryan
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Legacy Posted By Username: ryan.parlee
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Sep 22, 2007 8:59 AM
From my understanding, the file source server must have an agent on it. Doing a drive mapping may be a solution however I cannot confirm nor deny this will work, I'm simply going off what i have read.
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Legacy Posted By Username: tsorensen
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Sep 25, 2007 6:18 AM
i have been trying to get this to work as well....
Mapping the unc path of theNAS to a drive letter on the file server doesnt work... (i guess an iscsi NAS might work)
This is a shame because 500gb NAS boxes with gig ethernet are really cheap these days (less than £100) ..... we were considering giving them to our customers when they signed up to patch management.
This would have enabled us to deploy patch management easily as part of our services..
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Sep 27, 2007 2:06 AM
I've went the route of of DAS rather than NAS with some great results. Same as NAS boxes (built in raid controller for Raid etc)but with a eSATA/USB2/ Firewire connection to your managed machine. Only difference is you manage it through an app on the machine rather than through the usual linux/webbased interface for the networked versions. The drive itself just appears as another disk on the machine
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Legacy Posted By Username: CNelsonT2
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